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#! rnews 1142 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.sgi.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!chiuk@cs.indiana.edu From: "Kenneth Chiu" <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: When df disagrees with du Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:05:49 -0500 (EST) Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Lines: 8 Message-ID: <2579@847379155> References: <E0Ho83.Ex9@news2.new-york.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: numbfish.cs.indiana.edu In article <E0Ho83.Ex9@news2.new-york.net>, Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote: >I've had the df on one of my 2.1R servers tell me that /var is 107% full, >deleted some large files there,done du and gotten a figure for blocks used >in var,done df again(over periods of hours) and still been told(despite >checking the directories again,no new growth) that over twice that much >space is in use and that it's still 107% full. Hmm...is it possible that a process is unlinking a still open temp file?